On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, brett lee wrote: > I'm able to start and use Xwin. However, after the X server is up, I > need to manually close the cygwin bash window (the one that started the > X server). I've checked the usual places, but have not come up with a > solution. > > This is probably more of a shell "scripting" question, but since the > solution I'm looking for is a "windows executable > (C:\cygwin\startxwin.bat) that I can drop into my StartUp folder to > automatically start Xwin" when I log in, here I am. > > [snip] > # Succeeds, but must kill cygwin bash window manually > nohup xwin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons >/dev/null 2>&1 &
setsid XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons >/dev/null 2>&1 (you'll need to install the "setsid" package), or run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons >/dev/null 2>&1 (you'll need the "X-startup-scripts" package). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/